Globalization and Emerging Societies: Development and Inequality (Frontiers of Globalization) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0230354491 ISBN 13: 9780230354494

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Synopsis

This upper level textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts of

social processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a wide

range of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art populism

and political economy.

Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approach

to globalization differs from both structuralist accounts of the world-system, and the

institutionally-centred focus of much work in international studies. This synthesis will

provide a new resource to reconstruct theoretical approaches to globalization and

global studies.

Fluently written, clearly organized and with an interdisciplinary approach, the book

will be accessible to upper division undergraduates and graduates in social sciences and

humanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,

political economy, development studies and international relations.

About this title

About the Author

JOANILDO A. BURITY is Senior Researcher, Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, and Lecturer in Sociology and Political Science, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil JOHANNA JANSSON is a Senior Analyst at the Centre for Chinese Studies, Stellenbosch University, South Africa ANIRUDH KRSHNA is Associate Professor of Public Policy and Political Science at the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University, USA ANAND KUMAR is Professor of Sociology and chair of the Department of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, President of the Indian Association of Sociology and Coordinator of the Global Studies Programme, India JAMES H. MITTELMAN is University Professor of International Affairs at American University, Washington, DC, USA SANUSHA NAIDU is Research Director of the China in Africa programme based with FAHAMU in South Africa JAN NEDERVEEN PIETERSE is Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies and Sociology, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA RAVI A. PALAT is Associate Professor of Sociology, Binghamton University, New York, USA BOIKE REHBEIN is Director of Global Studies Programme, University of Freiburg, Germany HERMANN SCHWENGEL is Professor and Chair of Sociology, University of Freiburg, Germany GANESH K. TRICHUR teaches Global Political Economy and Asian Political Economy in the Global Studies department at St. Lawrence University, New York, USA

From the Back Cover

This upper level textbook provides readers with evocative and analytical accounts of

social processes that are linked to globalization and connectivity, which includes a wide

range of multi-centred connections in history, DNA analysis, technology, art populism

and political economy.

Rather than globalization, Nederveen Pieterse focuses on connectivity. His approach

to globalization differs from both structuralist accounts of the world-system, and the

institutionally-centred focus of much work in international studies. This synthesis will

provide a new resource to reconstruct theoretical approaches to globalization and

global studies.

Fluently written, clearly organized and with an interdisciplinary approach, the book

will be accessible to upper division undergraduates and graduates in social sciences and

humanities, including students and researchers from the fields of sociology, politics,

political economy, development studies and international relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230354491
• ISBN 13: 9780230354494
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 254
• Editor: Pieterse Jan Nederveen, Rehbein Boike